The taxpayer's daughter, who had learning disabilities, attended at a special school where a portion of the day was devoted to specific exercises to improve cognitive processing. Paris J. found that the taxpayer was entitled to claim the expenses of driving her daughter to and from the school as being in respect of obtaining "medical services" given that this term included "any services relating to the scientific diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease, not just those provided by a medical practitioner or a medically trained person" (p.
